Sramana Mitra
| Sramana Mitra | |
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| Born |
18 October 1970 Calcutta, India |
| Residence | Menlo Park, California |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Occupation | Founder & CEO, One Million by One Million |
| Website | Official Website |
Sramana Mitra (born October 18, 1970), founder of One Million by One Million, the first global virtual accelerator for entrepreneurs, is a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur and business writer.
In 2010, Mitra founded One Million by One Million (1M/1M), a global virtual accelerator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in annual revenue and beyond. 1M/1M is her fourth venture. It is headquartered out of Silicon Valley and operates as a virtual company, drawing team members from all over the world, including different parts of the US, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Turkey, Israel etc.
In 2015, she was included on the exclusive list of LinkedIn's Top 10 Influencers.
Sramana was born in Calcutta, India, in an old family with roots in entrepreneurship, as well as education and public service. Her father Probir Mitra, founded Himalaya Shipping, one of the first container shipping lines in India. Her paternal great grandfather, Sir P.C. Mitter was an Advocate of the Calcutta High Court, a Minister in pre-independence Bengal. Her maternal great grandfather came from a small village named Akalpoush in Bengal and became a successful steel merchant in Calcutta. He was also a member of the delegation to the Roundtable Conference in 1930-32. Sir Ramesh Chandra Mitra, his father, was Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, who was also for some time the first Officiating Indian Chief Justice.
Sramana attended the Gokhale Memorial Girls' school in Calcutta. In 1989, she left India for college in the United States. She has a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Smith College and a Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sramana Mitra has been pursuing entrepreneurship since 1994, having started 4 different companies including One Million by One Million, her current company. She started her first company DAIS while still a student at MIT. Later, she moved to the Silicon Valley and is now based in Menlo Park, CA.
Prior to founding One Million by One Million, Sramana founded three companies. Her first company was an off-shore services ventures using an India operation in Calcutta. Her second company Intarka was spun out of DAIS and offered a sales lead generation and qualification software using Artificial Intelligence technologies. Intarka's product, ProspectMiner was 100% engineered in India and the company was one of the first India product companies to raise funding from the Silicon Valley VCs. NEA funded the company.
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